Want to make history?
With the digicam revolution, we’ve all become photographers. Even I have.
I swell with pride when I capture that unique moment and I want the whole world to appreciate it. The maximum I could do was to post it on my blog and hope someone would see it. Not anymore …
Now I can make history with those wonderful snapshots. Yes, you read it right – Make History.
The Make History Foundation (technically De Metri Foundation), a non-profit initiative along with Lee launched a Photography contest last year in Europe. Now it’s happening in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes India.
And I’ve already made a list of things I could buy with the prize money - a whopping $40,000, close to Rs 20 lakhs. The good thing is that one need not be a professional photographer to participate. But you should be able to tell a few words. The image and words together make a story. “Because history is not only important events and important people. It is recorded with songs and painted on canvas. It is told in stories. It lives in snapshots.”
I have started looking around with a new set of eyes and find meaning in the unobvious because I want to Make History …
So can you! Check out the site http://www.makehistory-ap.com and the blog http://lee-make-history.blogspot.com/.
No, I didn't click it. A sample from the collectionPS. Anybody winning prize after getting lead from this post pay me a commission. OK? :-)
9 comments:
First time here..
Shall come later, to read more.
Sands.
PS: If I get prize, then *oru kunju commission* tharaam.
you have a competitor, bindhu. sure i'll give u commission. how much? name the % NOW, not after i bag the 40 grand dollars(omg - what'll i do with all that money!)
Sands: Thanks for coming here :-)
KPJ: I don't mind a competitor as long as I get commission. :-)
Well, I am not greedy. You can give me 50% :-).
Checked that site.. Some of the snaps there are really amazing..
Dhanya: Why don't you upload some of your vignettes there? :-)
history can't be made by motivation generated by money !
Gaurav: I think history was made by people motivated by various things, including money. And, getting motivated by money is not a bad thing. :-)
I wanted to say that's not history is all about..
It's a process which is created with time,over time..:)
Gaurav: Right. Whatever we do now may become history years later. :-)
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